Potuguese architects ARX designed this bifid house in the countryside. The house splits to make room for an existing tree while generating new views of the surrounding landscape.

The designer Janne Kyttänen wanted to bring the issue of global warming to debate, and made the lamp “Riot”

Pinel & Pinel is at it again and now presents a special trunk for Piaget jewelry. Once again, a beauty!

It is a bottle and it is also a box and it contains 1.5 litre of superb wine! Plus it is also 100% recyclable.

Tick Tock Toys Archives and Galleries feature scans and photos of vintage packaging and advertisements. The photo above is from Food Packaging>Candy Archive.

Fun portfolio of Schtock

Nacionale is the portfolio of freelance designer/illustrator Doug Alves. Born in Sou Paulo, Brazil.

Antec's new Skeleton Case ~ is pretty much as barebones as you can get! And gorgeous design as well...

The water that drops from a roof when raining inspired Nur Alam for this chair / bench. He got the idea when sitting in his room once and staring at the poring rain outside.

Project: Iceland is the first showcase of contemporary Icelandic art, fashion and musical talent and gives significant insight into this outstanding creative community.

How to Cool a Planet: Futuristic ways to fight against the global warming. (NY Times old issue - 2006 - but worth reading!) Click to see the full graphic!

New blog started by Jason Gabbert that focuses on beautiful book cover design. Every Monday he features a new designer and book cover design, and goes behind the scenes with discussions about process.

Love the illustrative work of Ryan McLennan. His website is full of goodness.

Anthony's Mini Garage Winery by Kerefe

I wish all my outlets fit three! Leviton's AC320-W.

An amazing and nice portfolio of Beijing 2008 .

Beautiful type design by Marian Bantjes (yet again). This time integrated in a book cover design...

"Donna", the last Julian Wolkenstein's work. The result of a recent trip in London where Julian commissioned a model maker to create the ' kebab" sculpture.

Chris Gilmour's cardboard version of Bond's Aston Martin is amazing. Includes front mounted machine guns, pop-out wheel blades, flip up stick shift eject button and more. Also check out Gilmour's cardboard safe and bicycle.

An advertisement for SBS's coverage of the Tour De France that is an epic 21 day endurance event for one Melbourne cyclist. His pedaling is powering a scrolling metrolite from 8-4, stopping only for two rest days as per the actual event.

Tinker Hatfield, Nike's Architect. great interview that explains Renzo Piano's intent in designing the Pompidou Centre and direct relation to designing Nike's iconic sneaker, The Air Max [video!]

Opera singer Leslie Garrett was hoisted above the Tower of London via a crane where she performed for a small audience to promote the English National Opera. The stunt was organized by Sky Arts TV channel.

The form of this 1700-square-foot house by John Donkin derives from three specific client requirements: a garden, a visitors' apartment, and a strong street presence. Done!

Recently Chaiten Volcano, southern Chile, erupted during storms in the middle of the night, creating this rare and colossal effect. The Chaiten Volcano has triggered earth tremors and spewed ash two miles into the air.

Really cool new feature was just added to Nike iD - Photo iD. Take a pictures with your phone, send it via MMS to Nike iD and use the colors from the photo on your customized Nike sneakers. Nice fusion of design and technology!

A finely crafted Fabergé Buddha made from bowenite which was previously owned by billionaire shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis. Soon to be up for auction - estimate of £350,000.

Formatmag.com releases over 70 new wallpapers with the Sneaker Wallpapers II Collection and the Issue 40 Anniversary Collection.

Lovegrove and Repucci have just released their follow up to their New York Delft Dinnerware with this set of London Delft Dinnerware. 5 piece porcelain place setting is 100$. And totally cool.

The desire to interfere as little as possible with the visual topography of the landscape prompted to attach the house to the ground and find façade and roof solutions with a direct relationship to the surroundings. OS House by NOLASTER

MOTHER'S DAY is Sunday! I just panicked, but Delight saved me, and has extended a discount for you guys as well ~ with their gorgeous gift wrapping, and great service, i totally trust them for mom gifts.

Astronomy picture of the day, simple website but often very impressive. This is the Cat's Eye Nebula, over half a light-year across. Picture of the day at 2008 March 22.

Arkitekhus is a firm building and selling houses designed by some well-known Swedish architects - Thomas Sandell, Claesson Koivisto Rune, Gert Wingårdh, and Tham & Videgård Hansson. Gorgeous stuff.

"Drawing Room" is an awesome new spot for the Playstation Network from Terry Hall and the Love Commercial Production Company.

Interactive game for Honda Motorcycles using Sudden Motion Sensor on Macbooks. Currently only the VIDEO is out, but the beta is soon be released

"Nudist Typeface" from UK designer Craig Oldham. Notice the pixellated naughty bits!

Ever wonder how those cement rings are made? 22 design studio sent designboom a few behind the scene snapshots

Clip Alphabetical | Designer Stephen Reed, created such interesting clips where each has a letter, thus serving to organize more easily, for example, documents that are required separated by alphabetical order!

Seeing this pencil sharpener at the MoMa store makes me want to pull out all the odd sizes pencils around... and start sketching? and coloring? and sharpening!

Boucheron have celebrated their 150th anniversary by making a necklace out of real chocolate which features a 20.08 carat yellow diamond on it.

Elegant and inspiriting underwater photography from Zena Holloway.

Orphaned hedgehogs adopt cleaning brush as their mother

Nordstrom and Ruben Toledo teamed up for an incredible Spring campaign ~ much like prada they did painted walls (and models!) for the backdrop in a playful black and white.

This spinning dot-matrix printer sprays inkjet messages on ping pong balls. Did I happen to mention that they're used as ammunition for a giant ping pong ball firing robot?

Cool wooden bed designed by a swiss architect. The Elements of this bed can be joined together without any tools. Very nice...

Romanywg's white BEAThovens... a bit silly to put ipod/headphones on a deaf musician... unless you could dock yours and music would come out! (Which it doesnt)

from web zen - A lego guitar... but it actually works!